Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been forced to give a direct answer to GB News viewers after Christopher Hope grilled him on his refusal to set a net migration cap.Addressing the nation in a press conference on Labour's new migration plan, the Prime Minister claimed that the "one nation experiment" on "open borders" is "over".FULL STORY HERE.
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00:00A lot of Chris's. Chris Hope, GB News. Prime Minister, we've been here before, haven't we?
00:05There have been three immigration acts since 2014. The Immigration Act in 2014 and 2016,
00:11both aimed to reduce immigration. They both failed. Why on earth should GB News viewers
00:17think you're going to succeed? And why not give us a promise right now, not a, not a,
00:22why not give us a fixed target right now, not a promise, so we can judge you on success?
00:26The Tories at least did that, but they failed. Well, look, the difference here, this is the most
00:31comprehensive plan that has been put forward. It's been forward to end the Tory sort of open borders
00:39experiment that we have had. You're right about that. And it looks at all routes and it's
00:46comprehensive and it does the hard yards of linking skills and business to what we need to do with the
00:53economy. So it's not a narrow look just at the numbers. It puts them in their proper context.
00:59On the question, which we do want to significantly reduce migration, I'm absolutely making clear that's
01:05what it will do and that if we need to go further, we will. So that's the promise I make to your
01:09viewers. I don't think it's sensible to put a hard edged cap on it. That has been done in one form or
01:15another for the best part of 10 years by different prime ministers. The only thing that links those
01:20prime ministers and the various caps or quotas or limits they put in places, every single one of
01:26them failed. And therefore, going down the failed route is not a sensible way for me. As with
01:33everything that I do, serious, pragmatic, looking at the things that will actually make a material
01:37difference. Thank you, Chris.